Beautiful Redemption (novel)

Beautiful Redemption is a 2012 young adult novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl and the final book in the Caster Chronicles series.

[1] The book was released on October 23, 2012 by Little, Brown and Company and focuses on Lena's attempts to bring Ethan back from the dead and to deal with the aftermath of his death.

To make his presence known, he creates crossword puzzles at Gatlin’s local publication, The Stars & Stripes, to get his messages to Lena.

Aunt Prue tells Ethan that his death was not supposed to happen, and the only way that he can return to the Mortal world is to remove his page from The Caster Chronicles, which is held by the Keepers at the Gates of the Far Keep.

Xavier reveals that he is a former Keeper who is condemned to be a monster and Gatekeeper for questioning Angelus's "experiments" of injecting Caster tissue and blood into himself to become immortal.

In the middle of their ritual, Genevieve Duchannes's Sheer appears and offers her help in bringing the Book to Ethan.

Ethan, while waiting for the Book of Moons, helps Xavier catalogue his many possessions and slowly loses his memories of Lena.

Angelus refuses and reveals that he rewrote the fates of several Casters to fulfill his plan of annihilating the Mortals and that Ethan's death was not supposed to happen.

The apocalypse, which started after Lena's Seventeenth Moon, should have continued until the world was free of Mortals, but it was thwarted by the Lilum, who told Ethan what must be done to restore the Order.

Xavier appears as Ethan's friend and proposes a challenge: the one who reaches the Chronicles first will do whatever he wishes.